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Post Comment: Will BBC abandon Birmingham? Sep 23 2011

Remember the days when the BBC brought us Pebble Mill at lunchtime?Read

Post Comment: Labour must accept it lost the election Sep 23 2011

Liberal Democrats have nothing to apologise for, according to Nick Clegg.Read

Post Comment: Equality trumps local identity Sep 16 2011

Nobody will be surprised that proposed boundary changes have caused outrage among many MPs.Read

Post Comment: Business support comes together under one roof Sep 16 2011

Marketing Birmingham has delivered some welcome news with the announcement that it is moving into Baskerville House, right at the heart of the city centre.Read

Post Comment: Fire cuts require national approach Sep 09 2011

There can be little doubt that £30 million of Government-imposed spending cuts over a four-year period will have a serious impact on the West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service.Read

Post Comment: Mr Gove makes a new friend, but keeps old foe Sep 09 2011

Education Secretary Michael Gove is hardly the first Government minister to execute a partial U-turn after criticising a local council.Read

Post Comment: Mayor debate still stuck in slow lane Sep 02 2011

The Government’s softly-softly approach to offering the country’s largest cities outside of London the chance to be run by a directly elected mayor owes much to political necessity.Read

Post Comment: Lord help us, the nouveau riche are buying titles Sep 02 2011

Only an absolute bounder, or quite possibly a naive foreigner, would think it possible or even desirable to elbow their way into the English aristocracy by buying a title.Read

Post Comment: Airports row is ready for take-off Aug 26 2011

The relationship between Birmingham Airport and its very small rival 15 miles away, Coventry Airport, has never been an easy one. A state of bitter rivalry often exists.Read

Post Comment: Ignore city's planning rules at your peril Aug 26 2011

Strangely, it is not against the law to build something without planning permission. A criminal offence only occurs when someone ignores an order from a council planning committee to comply with the rules and refuses to alter or pull down a structure that has been built without prior approval.Read

Post Comment: Mayor issue continues to underwhelm Birmingham Aug 18 2011

There is a bit of a flavour of a distinguished elderly former politician harking back to a supposed golden age as far as Sir Bernard Zissman’s remarks about an elected mayor for Birmingham are concerned.Read

Post Comment: Enterprise zone brings new hope Aug 18 2011

The creation by the Government of Enterprise Zones was always likely to result in a controversial list of winners and losers by the time hundreds of proposals had been reduced to a manageable number.Read

Post Comment: Poor taste in art by Her Majesty's Government Aug 12 2011

There was a time not so long ago that the offices of a Conservative MP would routinely feature a portrait of the Queen, as well as Sir Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher as an impressive supporting cast.Read

Post Comment: Reasons for riots, but no excuses Aug 12 2011

There can be no excusing the violent riots that have spread like wildfire across Birmingham since Monday. There may be reasons behind why mobs of mainly young people are behaving like savages, but there are no plausible excuses for criminal behaviour on such a scale.Read

Post Comment: Volunteers hit by harsh realities of public finance Aug 04 2011

Both the current Government and its predecessor spent a considerable amount of time promoting the benefits of Community Asset Transfer – a way of enabling councils to sell or lease unwanted buildings to voluntary groups at a sensible price.Read

Post Comment: More consultants, but at what cost? Aug 04 2011

The failure of Birmingham City Council to follow the correct procedures when awarding a £254,000 contract to PricewaterhouseCoopers is by no means one of the most serious breaches of procurement rules, although it is embarrassing.Read

Post Comment: Save Birmingham's Gun Quarter Jul 29 2011

The words ‘hole’ and ‘stop digging’ spring to mind when it comes to the Birmingham council cabinet member who is attempting to airbrush history by abolishing the city’s Gun Quarter.Read

Post Comment: Stressing the need for clarity Jul 29 2011

The disclosure that a single Birmingham company has been paid £1.5 million in just over three years to bring its programme of massage and stress-busting techniques into the city’s schools will, we suspect, provoke a number of questions among many of our readers.Read

Post Comment: Theory is no substitute for practical experience Jul 21 2011

A remarkable alliance has formed in the House of Commons.Read

Post Comment: No easy answer to city's budget woes Jul 21 2011

There are two ways of looking at Birmingham City Council’s latest financial forecasts, which have identified a potential £37 million budget deficit by the end of the financial year.Read

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